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DEVIGE FOR ATTAGHING PLATES OR TABLETS TO STOVES. N6. 253,600.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT HAM, 0F TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOE TO G. H. PHILLIPS 85 CO.

* OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING PLATES OR TABLETS TO STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,600, dated February' 14, 1882.

' Application filed January 3,1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT HAM, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselae'r and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching Tablets'or Ornamental Plates to Stoves, described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and in which- Figure 1 is a face elevation of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section of the same at the line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a face elevation of a part of my invention, and Fig. 4 is a section of the same at the line 3 y. Figs. 5 and 6 are each a rear side elevation of parts of my aforesaid invention; and Fig. 7 is a section of the same, taken at the line as m, Fig. 6.

The principal object of my hereinafter-described invention is to produce a simple and convenient device for securing medallions, tablets, or other ornamental plates, whether the same be made in solid or in open work, to the external casing or surfaces of stoves, and to avoid the necessity of making for such purpose in the casing of the stove holes through which the noxious gases of combustion might escape into the room.

In. the drawings, in which like characters refer to corresponding parts in the various figures, A represents a piece of stove-plate as broken from a stove, on which is a projection or lug, I), having the hole or eye 0 therein for the reception of a pin or nail, d.

E represents a plate, which may be of any suitable size, shape, or configuration, such as frequently have wrought thereon designs of an ornamental character, and are commonly nickel plated or otherwise embellished. In the body of the plate E is formed an open space,

f, of any suitable size and shape, having arranged therein a supporting piece or part, 9, connected to or made in one piece with the plate E at both ends (see dotted lines c, Fig. 5) or at one end, and extending nearly or partly across the space f, as shown in full lines or indicated by dotted lines o o in Fig. 5, as

may be desired, and is provided with a slot or eye, It, adapted to be received on the lug b on the plate A and to be thereon secured by the pin d. By arranging and so connecting the supporting-part g with .the plate E as to act as a spring in pressing such plate E against the plate A, substantially as indicated in Fig.

size and shape and ornamented as may bev desired, to cover the spacef, in which the support 9 is arranged, and secure such plate I in its place in any suitable known manner; but preferably with a view to attaching the plate I to the plate E, I provide the support 9 with the hole or socket j therein of such size and shape as to permit a nut on the end of a screw or bolt to be freely passed through the same, having a slot, 70, extending from one of its sides, so that when the nut l on the end of a screw, m, passing through a hole, n. in' the plate I, is int:oduced through the hole j and carried back of the slot (see Figs. 2, 6, and 7) and the screw m is tightened, the plate IV is securely fastened in its place on the plate E, and the plateE is also by this means firmly pressed against the plate A.

The projections 0, (see Figs. 6 and 7,) arranged parallel with and a1 short distance from the slot k, are designed to prevent the turning of the nut 1 when the screw m is being i turned.

What I claim as of my invention is- 1'. The device consisting of the combination of a lug, b, on a stove-plate, A, a support, g, attached to or forming a part of a plate, E, and arranged in a space. f, formed in the body of such plate E, and adapted to be secured to the lug I), in a manner substantially as set forth.

2. The device consisting of the combinationof a lug, b, on a stove-plate, A, a support, g, having an eye, 1:, and hole and slot-j lc therein, and arranged in a space,f, and COIIUEUtl d with a plate, E, and a cap-piece, I, provided with a nut and screw, Lon, all being disposed and adapted to be secured together substantially as described.

Signed by me this 30th day of December, 1881.

. ROBERT HAM. In presence of-- ROBERT SooNER, ALEXANDER WEMYss. 

